I think the Ryzen CPU just gives more bang for the buck, as well considering purchase price as energy consumption. That’s not Linux related, but I think Linux users generally tend to care less about “market leader”, sometimes even as far as consciously supporting the underdog.

By which component is the password truncated on account-creation? Imo, the web UI shouldn’t do that without at least warning the user. Such long passwords might be a corner-case, but if the UI changes the password in any way before submitting it to the server, I think the user should see a big fat red notification. What if an account was created using a different client? The user wouldn’t be able to log in using the web-ui because the web-ui refuses to send the unmodified password?

If the password is truncated server-side during account creation, the server should do the same during login, the UI or client wouldn’t even have to know about it.